Tim O'Reilly

A description of why political parties exist: not as a collection of people who share principles, but a set of people who propose to act together to achieve and hold power

From @adamtooze.bsky.social: The final paragraph of Joseph Schumpeter’s chapter-length introduction of his theory of democracy is such a banger. Source: J.A. Schumpter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. 1943.

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AI Codecon - Call for Proposals: Software Craftsmanship in the Age of AI - March 2026 - O'Reilly Media The best developers are discovering that building with agents doesn't replace the need for craftsmanship; it demands new forms of it.

For our March event, hosted by @addyosmani.bsky.social and @timoreilly.bsky.social, we want war stories, demos of “background coding” workflows, and deep dives into how you are combining the rigor of traditional engineering with the flexibility of AI. Submit your proposal by 2/17: bit.ly/49mpTUN

AI and the Next Economy The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge. It’s a compelling story, especially if you’re the

I wrote a bit of a manifesto about the need for a circulatory AI economy. I'd love feedback on the piece, but more importantly, pointers to people who are doing interesting work on aspects of this problem. www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and...

Live with Tim O'Reilly - Free Event Series - O'Reilly Media A series of candid conversations designed to slow down, dig deeper, and share real insights you can build on.

I am today's guest on my own show. :-) I'm thinking about scenario planning for wildly different possible AI futures, how open source software will change with AI, and how to build a better AI economy, but you can Ask Me Anything, starting at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...

Oops, my bad. We changed the time on this one from 8 am PT/11 am ET to 9 am PT/12 pm ET!

Anthropic recently shocked Cursor by suddenly raising its prices. Researcher Anjali Shrivavastava argued that this wasn't price gouging, but a clue to a fundamental economic issue with token pricing. Join us tomorrow morning at 8 am PT to talk about her research. www.oreilly.com/live/live-wi...

No matter how intelligent the AI powering the chatbot might be, it has to be integrated with the systems and the workflow of the organization that deploys it. And you can’t build a new skyscraper on a crumbling foundation.

AI Integration Is the New Moat The electrical system warning light had gone on in my Kona EV over the weekend, and all the manual said was to take it to the dealer for evaluation. I first

I had a great interaction with a customer service chatbot last week, and yet the customer service itself was no better. That left me thinking about why that was, and why making the AI better isn't the answer.

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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Technologist Sam Newman How should infrastructure evolve for AI workloads?

About to go live with Sam Newman, talking about the new economics of AI, how AI changes software architecture, and much more. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Google Docs Founders Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter Lessons from the past on seeing—and creating—the future

About to start Live with Tim O'Reilly, talking with the creators of Google Docs, about what their experience might teach us about rethinking UI for AI. learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...

We Are Only Beginning to Understand How to Use AI Lessons from Google Docs and Other Internet Innovations

It's the 20th anniversary of the launch of Writely, which became Google Docs. Next Tuesday I'll be chatting with Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, the founders of Writely, on what the leap they made might teach us about leaps ahead for AI. Join us!
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Is AI a "Normal Technology"? We think we see the world as it is, but in fact we see it through a thick fog of received knowledge and ideas, some of which are right and some of which are

And here are my takeaways from that conversation: www.oreilly.com/radar/is-ai-...

Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan Is AI unprecedented, or is it a “normal technology”?

Tomorrow, on Live with Tim O'Reilly, I'll be talking with Arvind Narayanan of Princeton about his notion that AI is a "normal technology" rather than the beginning of an unprecedented singularity.
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Factories in Space Space economy - Making products for Earth and space

Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier

"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...

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Bet on or Against the Unicorns Also the meme-stock revival, home insurance and tokenized crypto treasury companies.

Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be facing a pigovian tax. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Reading Abundance from China I organized a Chinese-language reading group for Abundance and we examined Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's ideals through the lens of China

Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-ab...

Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve? A Conversation with ChatGPT and Gemini About Job Losses from AI

Whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation cycle. This thought led me down a rabbit hole of talking with ChatGPT and Gemini about AI and enshittification.

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"More Slowly" Human Deep Learning in the Face of AI

And here's my own intro to the show that I reference above: www.oreilly.com/radar/more-s...

How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI Sunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downs…

Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.

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Fast moving innovation gives the lie to the idea that AI will put programmers out of work. There's more to learn and do and create than ever. Send in your proposals!

Coding for the Future Agentic World

The @oreillymedia May online conference on the future of coding with AI was a huge success, so Addy Osmani and I are doing it again on September 9, with a focus on coding for agentic AI. www.oreilly.com/radar/coding...

Where do you get that idea? There is no such plan. Everything we do is designed to continue to compensate authors.

Chelsea's courses through the O'Reilly platform include Fundamentals of Technical Debt, Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Software Engineers, and Leveraging LLMs in Software Engineering. learning.oreilly.com/search/?q=ch...

Chelsea is absolutely the best at saying "wait a minute" and cutting through the hype on all things AI. We'll be talking tomorrow morning, June 18, at 8 am Pacific. We'll be taking questions from the audience starting approximately halfway through the one-hour event. I hope to see you tomorrow!

Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O’Reilly AI and developer productivity, how AI changes the job, and more

The second guest on my new show Live with Tim O'Reilly is the inimitable Chelsea Troy, who leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, teaches computer science at the University of Chicago, and through the O'Reilly platform.

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Building Secure Code in the Age of Vibe Coding: Steve Wilson Live with Tim O’Reilly Navigate the security minefield of AI-assisted development—before it’s too late

Really looking forward to chatting with Steve Wilson today at 11am ET/8am PT. Steve is both incredibly excited about the possibilities of AI but also deeply concerned about the new vulnerabilities and attack surfaces it opens up. Let's hear what to do about it.

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No, it means doing more, using humans augmented with AI to solve problems that were previously impossible, in ways that were previously unthinkable, and in ways that make our machine systems more attuned to the humans they are meant to serve.

The problems of integrating AI into our businesses, our lives, and our society are indeed complicated. But whether you call it “AI native” or “AI first,” it does not mean embracing the cult of “economic efficiency” that reduces humans to a cost to be eliminated.

AI First Puts Humans First

My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically.

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